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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hellu!
I got the idea for this project a long time ago. I wanted to make something out of ties. So I started collecting cool (mostly paisley) ties. Maybe two years ago? Anyways, thrift shops are the shit for tie collecting. Then it came to me a while back. A tie skirt. And then I saw it on a blog and liked the idea even more. I'm really proud of it since 1. I actually did it 2. it's a sewing project 3. it turned out almost exactly the way I had envisioned. YEY! It's my contribution to Husmorsskolans Syförening and Fredrikas Sypepp :) PICS!

The pics are taken by the bf. At Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin. I figured such a masterpiece needed a castle. (Awesome mittens gift from mom)

So many ties!!!11oneone

I cut all the ties the same length and sewed them together one at a time. Then I zig zagged the raw ends. (And that's basically everything I had to zig zag = awesome) The waistband is two ends that I sewed together and attached to the rest.

I made a buttonhole in one of the ends. New skill! I've only tested the buttonhole thing on the machine before :) I also put in a zipper.

I didn't do a final count but there were 18-20 ties involved.

I got a thumbs up from a woman at a bus stop later in the evening. She knew fine crafts(wo)manship ;)

I should learn some new poses yes.

Here I tried out some Mr Burns arms at least.

TIES! I have almost all the thinner ends of the ties left. I shall of course save them for something else. I'll let you know when I figure it out.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Since we came home from Berlin I've been drinking more tea than usual. Since I had vacation I treated myself to another visit to the tea shop. I've had Andre Kåppen before and it's really good but the other three are new. I've only tried the Banankola (banana toffee) and eeh yuum! It tastes like Banana Skids fo sho.

It has tiny candy bananas in it!!! :P

Also the bf has been drinking tea with me some evenings which means I get to use my blue and white tea pot :) Cups and tea pots are second hand. The blue one is even made in my home town :)

Another fried fish. This time with chopped almonds in the batter. Brussel sprouts in the oven with some lemon juice and sea salt. I also made a sort of sauce with olive oil, lime juice, chili and ginger (I think, it was a while ago ya'know).

And sometimes we even eat in day light! A weekend breakfast all included.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Hellu!
In front of me is two weeks of vacation. Tomorrow me and the bf are headed to Berlin for 5 days :) Hopefully the free time will result in some more posts as I still have pics from Iceland as well as some new crafted stuff to show y'all. Woop woop!

Also, yesterday me and my dance group performed in front of 100+ people. It was pretty cool! And even tho I was nervous before it was really fun :)
Toodels!

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Hellu!
We've been searching the globe (or you know.. second hand stores in our home town) for a new living room table. But it seems it's super hard so we decided to do something fun with the one we have.